Ubuntu syslog: After log rotation nothing is written on /var/log/syslog

Solution 1:

I don't know what might be happening, but I've got a few questions that could help to debug it:

• Is rsyslogd running? (obvious, but just in case ...)
• If you execute the command "logger test", does anything appear in /var/log/syslog?
• Does /dev/log exist, with permissions for everyone to read and write? Is it a socket? ("file /dev/log")
• What happens in you stop rsyslogd and then run it with "-d"? Does it output any error? Does it output a start message to /var/log/syslog?
• Does anything change if you move the contents of /etc/rsyslog.d out of the way, and restart rsyslog just with the basic configuration?

Hope this helps.